The prehistoric discovery that certain plants cause harm and others have curative powers is the origin of the healing professions and its practitioners (priest, physician, and apothecary), as well as professions devoted to plants (botany and horticulture). The description of plants and their properties and virtues (termed herbals in the 16th century) became an invaluable resource for the physic...

The problem of antibiotic resistance emerging from the use and misuse of antibiotics in veterinary practice was considered as long ago as the 1960s by the famous Swann Committee. 1 What seems to be less well understood, and certainly less well documented, is the use of antimicrobials in the world of plant science. Antibiotics have been widely used in the control of contamination of micropropaga...

AVRDC – The World Vegetable Center is an international not-for-profit organization committed to ensuring the world's food security through research, development, and training. This informal series includes papers prepared for major symposia (proceedings of which may not appear for 1 or 2 years), important statements of speeches, selected seminar papers, or preliminary papers that require rapid ...

Floriculture is a discipline of horticulture concerned with the cultivation of flowers and ornamental plants for floral industry and for garden. In Floriculture the accurate forecasting of the yield and their estimation from the raw data are playing the important role in the planning of various aspects of Horticulture production. In most cases, such counting procedure is performed manually, whi...

Food production by urban dwellers is of growing importance in developing and developed countries. Urban horticulture is associated with health risks as crops in urban settings are generally exposed to higher levels of pollutants than those in rural areas. We determined the concentration of trace metals in the biomass of different horticultural crops grown in the inner city of Berlin, Germany, a...

Recently, the Korean government has been carrying out projects to construct several large scale horticulture facilities. However, it is difficult for an energy supply to operate stably and economically with only a conventional fossil fuel boiler system. For this reason, several unused energy sources have become attractive and it was found that power plant waste heat has the greatest potential f...